Pune: Cybercrooks impersonated Delhi police officials and kept a software engineer from Wadgaon Sheri under ‘ digital arrest ' for two days while forcing him to transfer Rs 23.55 lakh between Sept 21 and 29 to avoid prosecution for a money laundering case. The 25-year-old victim of the fraud reported it to the Pune cybercrime police and an FIR came to be registered on Tuesday with the Chandannagar police.
Inspector Swapnali Shinde of the cybercrime police told TOI, "The crooks made a video call to the victim and showed him a digital arrest warrant. They sent the warrant on his messaging application number as well. They then asked him to not move away from camera as the fraudsters claimed to have arrested the victim digitally.
" According to the police, the crooks, who used two cellphone numbers, called and told the victim that his bank account was used for illegal money transactions and he was also being investigated for ‘human trafficking'. Shinde said, "The crooks created a setup which looked similar to a police establishment during the video call. They then shared six different bank accounts with the victim and asked him to transfer money to avoid arrest and prosecution.
Under pressure, the victim followed their instruction." "The software engineer exhausted all his savings and broke the fixed deposits in a private bank in Satara of his parents. His parents had gone to Kedarnath Yatra.
As he was the nominee of the FDs, he furnished an undertaking to encash the FDs to hi.
